Pakistan arrests 45 Indian fishermen

The agency’s officials detained the fishermen on Saturday after they strayed into Pakistani waters.


Our Correspondent March 06, 2015
Fishermen from India stand behind bars in a cell at a police station in Karachi. PHOTO: REUTERS

KARACHI:


Some three weeks after Pakistan had released 172 Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture, officials at the Maritime Security Agency (MSA) have arrested 45 more Indian fishermen for entering the country’s territorial waters in the Arabian Sea. One fisherman having Bangladeshi nationality, who was accompanying them, was also arrested.


The agency’s officials detained the fishermen on Saturday after they strayed into Pakistani waters along with eight boats. The fishermen were handed over to the Docks police. “The MSA has handed these fishermen over to us for further legal proceedings,” confirmed Docks police station SHO Zawwar Hussain Shah while talking to The Express Tribune. “One of them is a Bangladeshi national.”

The police have registered FIR No. 127/15 under Foreign Act and Fisheries Act on behalf of the state, said the officer.

He added that the police will present the fishermen before a magistrate, who will send them to jail on Sunday for entering the territorial waters of the country illegally. Nearly 349 Indian fishermen are already imprisoned in Karachi.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 7th, 2015.

COMMENTS (6)

zara haq | 9 years ago | Reply @harkol: http://tribune.com.pk/story/838759/goodwill-gesture-172-indian-fishermen-released-in-karachi/ Where is your goodwill gesture??. Forget that, lately our fishermen released by you complained of bad treatment. Why you ppl are such haters.
Stranger | 9 years ago | Reply Please let them go They are poor and uneducated.
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